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Second Street Won’t Be As Painful This Spring

In Our Opinion

Last year at this time drivers and some businesses on Second Street were fuming - though business at tire and alignment shops was booming. It’s good to know that Second Street won’t be as big a headache early this year. The credit goes back to last year, when city officials, with the help of local state representatives Andrew Molitor and George Borrello, reached an agreement with the state to perform temporary repairs last year after Second Street began to look like the surface of the moon. That paving work took place in July, and City Council members said during last week’s ...

It’s Time For An End To CLCPA Foolishness

In Our Opinion

If you think power is expensive now, get a load of what it could look like in five years if New York Democrats don’t change their ways. According to a memo from Doreen Harris, NYSERDA president and CEO, the impact of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act could mean an additional $2.23 a gallon on top of the current prices by 2031 and fuel oil and natural gas costs could increase more than $4,000 a year. “Notwithstanding these cautions, the modeled price would lead to high burdens to New York households, especially those unable to install lower emissions ...

These Birds Have Me Completely Puzzled

Local Commentaries

I’m a puzzler. I’ve tackled jigsaw puzzles, word puzzles and occasionally number puzzles since I was a kid. And oh, the happy, smug satisfaction it brings. I begin my day puzzling with my first cup of coffee. Every morning, I do three types of word puzzles on the computer. By the time I finish, my sleep-slit eyes are open, I’m vertical, and taking nourishment. Dear Richard refills my coffee cup. At bedtime, I do the newspaper puzzles. Then this Christmas, to my delight, my grandson, Malcolm, gave me a jigsaw puzzle. A gift I would be thrilled to get every year. This ...

This Is An Important Time For National Comedy Center

In Our Opinion

The National Comedy Center is popular amongst comedians and those who vote in online polls and contests. Recently, the center was named the #1 Best Pop Culture Museum in the country by USA Today as part of the 2026 USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards, an online contest. In 2020, it was voted the nation’s #1 “Best New Museum,” and in 2019, it was voted the #2 “Best New Attraction” while ranking as the #1 museum and #1 ticketed attraction in a USA Today poll. The museum has also been named one of Time magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places,” and to U.S. News & World ...

Dems Doth Protest Too Loudly On Affordability

Local Commentaries

The latest political rage is the “Affordability Crisis” – which basically means inflation is eating away at your paycheck. Ironically, the people who most loudly proclaim the Affordability Crisis are the ones who caused the problem in the first place by supporting over-spending and over-regulation by the government. They also think the answer is (curiously) more spending and more regulation. Under Biden, inflation averaged over 5% per year, with one year being over 9%. By comparison, it was under 2% when Trump 45 left office, and was reduced to 2.7% in Trump 47’s first ...

Hold The ‘Epstein Class’ Accountable

Local Commentaries

I have no words for the Republicans who still support this administration after the evidence being released in the Epstein files. I have no words for those who boast that they are protecting children by villainizing transgender people, yell about rainbow posters in classrooms, and demand books about being gay or in any way not white be removed from libraries but stay quiet about the Epstein files. I have no words for the woman driving by me last month while I was protesting who took the time to roll down her window, snarl and scream at me “*uck you, go Trump!” in front of her young ...